News about diseases and illnesses caused by ticks.

Category: white-footed mouse

Dr. Timothy Sellati, an infectious disease researcher at Trudeau Institute, has “a little pie-in-the-sky” idea for research on the feasibility of developing a method to vaccinate white footed mice against the Lyme disease causing pathogen which ticks carry from the mice to humans. READ

Southern Indiana is an oasis free from Lyme disease, the condition most associated with the arachnids that are the second most common parasitic disease vector on Earth. But there are signs that this low-risk environment is changing… READ